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Why Global Warming Is Like a Scorching Dinner

Once the plate or the planet gets too hot it takes forever to cool down, explains ClimateAdam—and in both cases, that's a problem

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How is our warming planet like a scorching dinner? ClimateAdam explains to an impatient friend why it’s no easy task to cool down our planet—or our meals—if they get too hot. Safe solutions might not actually work, while the easy options might mess up the whole thing. 

This video first appeared on YouTube on September 1 and is embedded here with permission. Adam Levy, a Multimedia Editor for Nature, created this video for his personal YouTube channel, ClimateAdam. The views represented are his own. Copyright Adam Levy 2016. All rights reserved.

Lydia Chain is a freelance science journalist, podcaster, and videographer. She hosts Undark's podcast, and also writes about nature, the environment, and evolution, especially when it involves the intersection of humans and wild spaces or animals behaving strangely.

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